Monday, December 5, 2011

Peanut Butter

Because milk is made for calves and not for humans, they say that dairy is "unnatural" and bad for humans. Although there are conflicting studies about this, from a "natural" point of view this kind of makes sense. But then again, so would eating meat raw, because that's what's "natural." (Though I vaguely remember reading an article about like one other animal species that "cooked" their food).... I mean if you think about it, the whole idea of cooking food is weird from this "natural" point of view. Electricity is weird. Staying up late is weird (well it's been proven that it's unhealthy in many many ways but that's another story).

So in the end, I don't think what's considered "natural" dictates what's good for the human body.

Just because the rate of osteoporosis in higher in America where the milk consumption is higher doesn't necessitate correlation (similar to how there is no correlation between higher ice cream sales and higher rates of crime in the summer).

I mean if you think about it, a lot of people are allergic to peanuts. Does that mean that people should stop eating peanuts (just like a vast majority of people are lactose-intolerant)? Is there something about peanuts that humans naturally can't process that means that we shouldn't eat it? There are apparently many uses for peanuts and many health benefits that come with eating peanuts so this is not necessarily true.

But then again, this is my "logical" reasoning trying to justify eating all the cheese and ice cream I eat. And all the milk and eggs I use in my cooking. Meh!

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